Question

Read the excerpt from chapter 25 of The Awakening. Mrs. Highcamp was a worldly but unaffected, intelligent, slim, tall blonde woman in the forties, with an indifferent manner and blue eyes that stared. She had a daughter who served her as a pretext for cultivating the society of young men of fashion. Alcée Arobin was one of them. He was a familiar figure at the race course, the opera, the fashionable clubs. Which best describes the narrative voice of the excerpt?

a.The author uses a subjective observer to present subtle judgments about the characters.
b.The author uses an objective observer to present a factual telling of the events of the story.
c.The author uses the point of view of a character in the story to offer insight into Arobin’s habits.
d.The author uses the point of view of a character in the story to reveal Mrs. Highcamp’s age.

Answer 1

I would go with choice a. The tone seems less factual and a bit judgmental.

Answer 2

b.The author uses an objective observer to present a factual telling of the events of the story.

Step-by-step explanation:

To narrate is to tell one or more facts that occur with certain characters, at a defined time and place. In other words, it is telling a story, which can be real or imaginary.

In the excerpt provided in the question the author used an objective observer narrator. We know this because, this narrator knows all the story that will be narrated, but does not participate in it. So he knows the facts, but does not act like a character in the plot. In addition, the narrator describes the facts objectively, providing an accurate description of what is happening, without the personal expressions of the observer narrator.